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“Environmental Ed” introduces students to many interesting facts about spiders — even reminding us that these arthropods can be helpful Earth-friendly predators.
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Life Science is the study of living organism which include micro-organisms, plants, animals and humans.
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“Environmental Ed” explores the meaning of an Ecological Footprint and considers the size of his own Ecofootprint while guiding students to consider the demands they place on the Footprints measure...
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Ecosystem ecology – is the integrated study of biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems and their interactions within an ecosystem. Environmental Ed explains food chains and food webs and the...
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Joe Flaherty, Ph.D., talks about his lab’s research of genes involved in fungal development - The “diSCovering Science” series features interviews with scientists and researchers from South Carolina’s...
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John Weidner, Ph.D., looks at catalysts for fuel cells - The “diSCovering Science” series features interviews with scientists and researchers from South Carolina’s colleges and universities. These...
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Melissa A. Moss, Ph.D., talks about advances being made in Alzheimer’s Disease research and explains how protein aggregates in the brain can lead to the progression of this disease - The “diSCovering...
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Their research is mainly cell interaction and they focus on: heart muscle cells, Neurons, cancer cells and stem cells. They study those cells due to the complicity of the diseases. Bruce Zhi Gao, Ph.D...
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Bruce Zhi Gao, Ph.D talks about cyber research and how different cells are put together to form a tissue that treats disease. Through fundamental research they are using a biochip as a tool to create...
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Bruce Zhi Gao, Ph.D explains biochips. A biochip is very close to a computer chip but they put it in a cell culture dish to make it very clean to culture a cell. The chip is made of silicone which is...
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Richard Visconti, Ph.D., gives a quick overview of the significance of stem cell research - The “diSCovering Science” series features interviews with scientists and researchers from South Carolina’s...